Video: Starting Dreamweaver for the first time

The first thing we are going to do is start Dreamweaver, set up our doc and take a look at the Welcome Screen. To find Dreamweaver application, double click on the Macintosh Hard Drive. It should be an icon in your upper right- hand corner. Click on your Applications folder, scroll down through your applications till you come to Dreamweaver CS4. Click on that folder, then look for the Application icon and we are going to set it up so we can be power users, so let's click on the icon and drag it down to our dock. That way it will be available for us throughout our project.

A web site is just a web site unless it’s designed with a unique style. Creating a CSS Style Guide: Hands-On Training highlights the importance of a CSS style guide, which serves as an interface for the design team and a communication tool for the client. Laurie Burruss calls on her background as director of digital media at Pasadena City College and takes an informative, real–world approach to this topic. She shows how Dreamweaver CS4 can be used to develop a coherent site–wide emotion that boosts brand identity. The course culminates with building a working web style guide for professional use. Exercise files and a downloadable PDF quiz accompany the course.

Starting Dreamweaver for the first time

The first thing we are going to do is start Dreamweaver, set up our doc andtake a look at the Welcome Screen. To find Dreamweaver application, doubleclick on the Macintosh Hard Drive. It should be an icon in your upper right-hand corner. Click on your Applications folder, scroll down through yourapplications till you come to Dreamweaver CS4. Click on that folder, then lookfor the Application icon and we are going to set it up so we can be powerusers, so let's click on the icon and drag it down to our dock. That way it willbe available for us throughout our project.

If you are doing this on Windows, you will look on your C Drive, go to theProgram Files, go to your Adobe folder, and locate Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 insidethat folder. Go ahead and click on that folder and look for the Applicationicon, right click on that Application icon and choose to pen it to your Startmenu. You could also find it under your Start menu, under you Adobe folder oryour Adobe Suite folder.So I'm going to close up our files up here. Let's go down to the dock and clickon Dreamweaver and start the application. As soon as Dreamweaver CS4 opens, itpresents you with the Welcome Screen. The Welcome Screen has three activitiesthat you can do. You can open up a recent item, you can create new documents.

All kinds of documents including code, CSS style sheets, script. You can definea site. The third column is new videos and features that are supported by Adobe TV.It's important to take a look at the three or four buttons down here in thelower left corner. Getting Started is a great place for beginners to go to. It usually has tutorials for the first time user of Dreamweaver.Whenever you are buying a new version of Dreamweaver, check out New Features.It usually explains what the new feature is and how to use it in the context inwhich it was developed.

Resources is an excellent place to go to get the full benefit of the Adobesupport, help, information, tutorials, developer center, all the kinds ofthings that they can do to help support you with this product.But my favorite button is actually the Dreamweaver Exchange, which is reallyrun by the community of Dreamweaver users. There is third-party plug-ins, thereis extensions, there are forums on CSS, places to talk about bugs, all kinds offun things, and really this is where the active participants in Dreamweaver putup information and help each other out.

It's important to understand what happens in the bottom right corner of theWelcome Screen. This area will change all the time. Every time you open upDreamweaver with the Welcome Screen, it goes out to the Internet to see ifthere is new information, new updates, new news items that Adobe Dreamweaverwants to distribute to you.This takes a lot of processing speed, and if you leave the Welcome menu on allthe time, you will find that it really takes a hit on your processing speedwhen you are working inside of Dreamweaver.So that we can work as fast as we can and as efficiently as we can, let's goahead and click on Don't show again. As soon as we click on that, a dialog boxcomes on the screen telling us that if we turn this off, we can always turn itback on again by going up to our General category in the Preferences. So don'tbe afraid, anything you do in Dreamweaver you can always undo.

Now we are going to go ahead and close the Welcome Screen and get ready to setup our site and define a site.

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